surrealism

SURREALISM

BY TOSHNI D GHATATE

WHAT IS SURREALISM?????

CULTURAL MOVEMENT BEGAN IN EARLY 1920S

KNOWN FOR VISUAL ART WORK AND

LITERATURE

THE AIM WAS TO RESOLVE THE PREVIOUSLY

CONTRRADICTORY CONDITIONS OF DREAMS

AND REALITY

TECHNIQUES OF SURREALISM

FROTTAGE

DECALCOMANIA

GROTTAGE

COLLAGE

DRIP PAINTING

FUMAGE

AUTOMATIC DRAWING

AUTOMATIC PAINTING

MAIN ARTISTS OF SURREALISM

ANDRE MASSON

FRENCH PAINTERPERMANENTLY AFFECTED BY HIS EXPERIENCE IN WWIHIS WORK RELEASE OF VIOLENCE TECHNIQUES- AUTOMATIC PAINTING, SPREADING SAND AND GLUE

LUNATIQUES 1943

JOAN MIRO

SPANISH PAINTER

TYPICALLY BIOMORPHIC ABSTRACT IMAGES

CONVINCINGLY DEPICTS ORGANISMS TAKE SHAPES, DEFINED CLEAR

OUTLINE AND SHARP COLOURS

The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings

YVES TANGUYSURREALIST ABSTRACT PAINTER

EVOLVED AND DEVELOPED A STTYLE OF IMAGINERY LANDSCAPE

MOTIF WERE HALF ANIMAL, HALF VEGETABLE AND AMOEBA

LIKE ORGANISMS PREVIOSLY UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE

 Indefinite Divisibility 1942

JEAN ARP

THE EX DADAIST

KNOWN ORIGINALLY FOR HIS DADAIST WOOD RELIEF, CARDBOARD

CUT OUTS AND TORN PAPER COLLAGES

IMPACT OF SURREALISM

SURREALISM TYPICALLY ASSOSIATED WITH THE ART, IT HAS

TRANSCEND THEM

SURREALISM HAS HAD AN IMPACT IN MANY OTHER FIELDS SUCH AS

CINEMA, FASHION AND PEOPLE’S THOUGHTS

 Elsa schiparelli’s Lobster Dress 1937, based around the lobster motif which was inspired by the Dali’s Lobster Telephone.

Schiaparelli and Dali are both bold and provoking. “Shoe Hat” was another one from Schiaparelli’s collaborations with the Surrealists in 1937-38

MODERN DAY SURREALISM

CINEMA

FASHION

LIFESTYLE PRODUCTS

GRAPHIC AND WEB DESIGNING

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